Your job is to find trouble – and shoot it.
You lead a team of Troubleshooters with RED security clearance. Identify them, report them – or eliminate them as the treasonous scum they are. Traitors are everywhere, plotting to destroy The Computer, Alpha Complex itself, and our precious way of life.
Treason is punishable by summary execution. Refusing to drink your daily dose of Bouncy Bubble Beverage is an act of treason. Having access to information beyond your security clearance is an act of treason. Questioning the benevolence of Friend Computer is an act of treason. All citizens enjoy a life of joy, cheerfulness and cleanliness. Paranoia is a CRPG that takes place in humanity's last idyllic refuge, Alpha Complex, which is controlled by Friend Computer.